1. 08 7月, 2008 16 次提交
  2. 13 6月, 2008 1 次提交
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      Revert "x86: fix ioapic bug again" · 0b6a39f7
      Ingo Molnar 提交于
      This reverts commit 6e908947.
      
      Németh Márton reported:
      
      | there is a problem in 2.6.26-rc3 which was not there in case of
      | 2.6.25: the CPU wakes up ~90,000 times per sec instead of ~60 per sec.
      |
      | I also "git bisected" the problem, the result is:
      |
      | 6e908947 is first bad commit
      | commit 6e908947
      | Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      | Date:   Fri Mar 21 14:32:36 2008 +0100
      |
      |     x86: fix ioapic bug again
      
      the original problem is fixed by Maciej W. Rozycki in the tip/x86/apic
      branch (confirmed by Márton), but those changes are too intrusive for
      v2.6.26 so we'll go for the less intrusive (repeated) revert now.
      Reported-and-bisected-by: NNémeth Márton <nm127@freemail.hu>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      0b6a39f7
  3. 29 4月, 2008 1 次提交
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      x86: Fix 32-bit MSI-X allocation leakage · 9d9ad4b5
      PJ Waskiewicz 提交于
      This bug was introduced in the 2.6.24 i386/x86_64 tree merge, where
      MSI-X vector allocation will eventually fail.  The cause is the new
      bit array tracking used vectors is not getting cleared properly on
      IRQ destruction on the 32-bit APIC code.
      
      This can be seen easily using the ixgbe 10 GbE driver on multi-core
      systems by simply loading and unloading the driver a few times.
      Depending on the number of available vectors on the host system, the
      MSI-X allocation will eventually fail, and the driver will only be
      able to use legacy interrupts.
      
      I am generating the same patch for both stable trees for 2.6.24 and
      2.6.25.
      Signed-off-by: NPeter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      9d9ad4b5
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      x86: fix "Kernel panic - not syncing: IO-APIC + timer doesn't work!" · 4aae0702
      Ingo Molnar 提交于
      this is the tale of a full day spent debugging an ancient but elusive bug.
      
      after booting up thousands of random .config kernels, i finally happened
      to generate a .config that produced the following rare bootup failure
      on 32-bit x86:
      
      | ..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
      | ..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC
      | ...trying to set up timer (IRQ0) through the 8259A ...  failed.
      | ...trying to set up timer as Virtual Wire IRQ... failed.
      | ...trying to set up timer as ExtINT IRQ... failed :(.
      | Kernel panic - not syncing: IO-APIC + timer doesn't work!  Boot with apic=debug
      | and send a report.  Then try booting with the 'noapic' option
      
      this bug has been reported many times during the years, but it was never
      reproduced nor fixed.
      
      the bug that i hit was extremely sensitive to .config details.
      
      First i did a .config-bisection - suspecting some .config detail.
      That led to CONFIG_X86_MCE: enabling X86_MCE magically made the bug disappear
      and the system would boot up just fine.
      
      Debugging my way through the MCE code ended up identifying two unlikely
      candidates: the thing that made a real difference to the hang was that
      X86_MCE did two printks:
      
       Intel machine check architecture supported.
       Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#1.
      
      Adding the same printks to a !CONFIG_X86_MCE kernel made the bug go away!
      
      this left timing as the main suspect: i experimented with adding various
      udelay()s to the arch/x86/kernel/io_apic_32.c:check_timer() function, and
      the race window turned out to be narrower than 30 microseconds (!).
      
      That made debugging especially funny, debugging without having printk
      ability before the bug hits is ... interesting ;-)
      
      eventually i started suspecting IRQ activities - those are pretty much the
      only thing that happen this early during bootup and have the timescale of
      a few dozen microseconds. Also, check_timer() changes the IRQ hardware
      in various creative ways, so the main candidate became IRQ0 interaction.
      
      i've added a counter to track timer irqs (on which core they arrived, at
      what exact time, etc.) and found that no timer IRQ would arrive after the
      bug condition hits - even if we re-enable IRQ0 and re-initialize the i8259A,
      but that we'd get a small number of timer irqs right around the time when we
      call the check_timer() function.
      
      Eventually i got the following backtrace triggered from debug code in the
      timer interrupt:
      
      ...trying to set up timer as Virtual Wire IRQ... failed.
      ...trying to set up timer as ExtINT IRQ...
      Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted (2.6.24-rc5 #57)
      EIP: 0060:[<c044d57e>] EFLAGS: 00000246 CPU: 0
      EIP is at _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x5/0x1c
      EAX: c0634178 EBX: 00000000 ECX: c4947d63 EDX: 00000246
      ESI: 00000002 EDI: 00010031 EBP: c04e0f2e ESP: f7c41df4
       DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: 0068
       CR0: 8005003b CR2: ffe04000 CR3: 00630000 CR4: 000006d0
       DR0: 00000000 DR1: 00000000 DR2: 00000000 DR3: 00000000
       DR6: ffff0ff0 DR7: 00000400
        [<c05f5784>] setup_IO_APIC+0x9c3/0xc5c
      
      the spin_unlock() was called from init_8259A(). Wait ... we have an IRQ0
      entry while we are in the middle of setting up the local APIC, the i8259A
      and the PIT??
      
      That is certainly not how it's supposed to work! check_timer() was supposed
      to be called with irqs turned off - but this eroded away sometime in the
      past. This code would still work most of the time because this code runs
      very quickly, but just the right timing conditions are present and IRQ0
      hits in this small, ~30 usecs window, timer irqs stop and the system does
      not boot up. Also, given how early this is during bootup, the hang is
      very deterministic - but it would only occur on certain machines (and
      certain configs).
      
      The fix was quite simple: disable/restore interrupts properly in this
      function. With that in place the test-system now boots up just fine.
      
      (64-bit x86 io_apic_64.c had the same bug.)
      
      Phew! One down, only 1500 other kernel bugs are left ;-)
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      4aae0702